Mothering Sunday‘There will be a home produce stall after the service next Sunday morning in aid of the Cyclone Appeal. All contributions, home baked or monetary, will be extremely welcome! Contact Sarah Bryant 0208 870 7167.’

Cyclone Appeal‘There will be a home produce stall after the service next Sunday morning in aid of the Cyclone Appeal. All contributions, home baked or monetary, will be extremely welcome! Contact Sarah Bryant 0208 870 7167.’

This Week’s Notices

Today Junior Church have organised our Parish Lunch! Everyone is welcome but it would be particularly lovely to welcome our Junior Church children and their families.

Rule of Life: If the sermons of Lent or the themes they address speak to you, or you want to talk more about what a Rule of Life involves, come and see one of us during Lent. Aaron & Simon.

Church Open: The Church is now open weekdays from 10am to noon. We hope this will enable more people to use the church during the week.

Electoral Roll Renewal: Every seven years we have to throw away our Electoral Roll (membership list) and create a new one. 2019 is that year! For those already enrolled, we are trying to do this by email so watch out for an email in the coming weeks. But if if you’ve joined the church recently, or aren’t or the Roll, or if you just count St Mary’s as your spiritual home, please fill out an Electoral Roll form at the back of the church and put it in the letter box by the exit stairs. David Britten.

St Mary’s E-Newsletter: Emrys Lloyd-Roberts has now resigned as Editor of the Newsletter, owing to his relocation to North Wales as his primary home. There is a need to fill the gap he leaves with another volunteer. There are no meetings to attend. If you would like to find out more about this role, contact Emrys: [email protected]

PCC & Leadership Roles: It won’t be long now until we start thinking about electing new people to the Parochial Church Council, which is the leadership body of St Mary’s, working alongside the Vicar. If you’d like to find out more about what’s involved or would like to attend a meeting to see if it interests you, please contact Simon or one of the Church Wardens. We are particularly keen to recruit men and black and minority ethnic people to the Council this time, as these are the places where we lack diversity. Up to three places are available plus two ‘casual vacancies on Battersea Deanery Synod.

Christian Aid Week 2019: Christian Aid week is 7th– 14thMay this year. If you would like to help with the Christian Aid fundraising on the morning of Sunday 12thMay, please contact Cal Alphonse ([email protected])

Reverend Aaron Kennedy: Aaron will be taking a period of Shared Parental Leave in May and June this year, to spend two months caring for Gabriel as Grace returns to work for CAFOD. This has been agreed between Simon, the Church Wardens and the Diocese in accordance with government guidelines. Aaron will begin his leave on Monday 29th April and will return to ministry on Sunday 29th June 2019.

Praying this Week in the Context of Brexit

Funeral of Lejean Richards

If you would like to be part of crowdfunding for Lejean Richard’s Funeral – the young man who was stabbed in Westbridge Road recently – please make your donation here: www.gofundme.com/lj039s-world-raising-for-his-funeral-costs

Lejean’s Funeral will be at St Mary’s on Monday 15thApril at 11am

Wandsworth Welcomes Refugee Children

Wandsworth Council is pledging to offer a home to refugee children in support of Lord Dubs’ Our Turn Campaign. The Council has committed to taking up to 3 vulnerable unaccompanied refugee children a year for the next 10 years dependent on ongoing support from the government. This is in addition to 43 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children Wandsworth has already committed to taking in. To achieve this, Wandsworth requires foster parents. Contact them to find out more.

Please take a moment leave a positive comment on the Wandsworth website to demonstrate that local residents welcome this step.
http://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/site/scripts/news_article.php?newsID=14851

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